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This article describes the problems of hunger and poverty, and how they will become ever more intractable through anthropogenic climate change. It also discusses the effects of anthropogenic climate change on agriculture and water resources. It goes on to delineate conventional and alternative approaches to fighting the problem of world hunger and to evaluate their efficacy. Then the author presents the case of Grameen Danone – a project, which is successful without development aid – but through cooperation between industry and civil society and which operates fairly and sustainably based on the ethical principles of subsidiarity and solidarity.
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Gottwald, FT. (2010). Hunger, Poverty, and Climate Change: Institutional Approaches, a New Business Alliance, and Civil Courage to Live Up to Ethical Standards. In: Gottwald, FT., Ingensiep, H., Meinhardt, M. (eds) Food Ethics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5765-8_9
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